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Excerpt: There are two conservatives for every liberal in America. That’s the message of a recent David Brooks column as well as a Gallup survey. I think the imbalance is much starker. I would guess there are four conservatives for every liberal. Maybe even more. Here’s a test I invite you to take. Watch C-Span’s morning call-in show and listen to what people who phone in on the “Democrat” or “liberal” line have to say. When is the last time you heard a caller say, “We should all pay higher taxes so that the government can provide us with universal day care”? Or how about, “We should all pay higher taxes so the government can provide us with universal long term care”? I bet you can’t remember ever hearing that. Here is what I suspect you will hear: Teachers complaining that teachers aren’t paid enough. Union members complaining about competition from workers overseas. Senior citizens whining about the meagerness of Social Security or Medicare benefits. Minority callers advocating more affirmative action. What is the common denominator of these comments? Self-interest.

Congressman Allen West (R-Florida) is a freshman pro-troop conservative Member of Congress. As an African-American former military officer with service in Iraq, he has been under constant attack by the left. We are outraged that one of his political opponents – a little rich kid with inherited wealth and no achievements to his name – had the audacity to call Colonel West “a coward.”

Dirty Harry Forced To Return Campaign Donations

Feb 15, 2012 12:44 pm
Tweet U.S. Sens. Harry Reid and Dean Heller are shedding political donations amid reports that a Nevada developer and lobbyist is the target of a federal campaign finance investigation. Heller’s communications director said Tuesday the Republican Nevada senator will donate to charity some $26,700 he received… Continue to Post

Voter Fraud Could Decide Next Election

Feb 15, 2012 01:04 pm
Tweet Reports are coming in that the voter rolls have been faked. We knew that the voter rolls were padded in places like Chicago, but now we’re learning that the fraud is more widespread than we ever could have imagined.… Continue to Post

Issa Takes Step Toward Holding Holder In Contempt Of Congress

Feb 15, 2012 01:06 pm
Tweet On Tuesday Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House committee on Oversight and Government Reform, took a major step toward holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for his failure to provide subpoenaed documents and other information… Continue to Post

Canadians, watching the Fundamental Transformation of the United States of America, from the safety of over-the-border observation, consider themselves too distant from the expanding Marxist policies of the President Barack Obama regime.

The Obama Administration's Anti-Israel Tenor Forces Iran And Israel Toward WarBy Ben Shapiro
Breitbart/BigPeace.com President Obama has made clear over and over again that he does not want Israel to strike Iran, no matter what the circumstances. Last week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta leaked to the Washington Post that "there is a strong likelihood that Israel will strike Iran in April, May or June -- before Iran enters what Israel described as a 'zone of immunity' to commence building a nuclear bomb." Now, the only reason to leak that information is to stop the attack. And that’s been the Obama Administration pattern, as I wrote over at David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com. In June 2010, the Administration leaked a secret deal between the Saudis and the Israelis that would have given Israel access to Saudi airspace for the strike. This is the pattern.

Radical environmentalists are constantly trying to silence the opposing voices that speak truth about job-creating projects like Keystone XL and the Pebble mine in Alaska. You recently joined more than 10,000 others in support of the Keystone XL pipeline by signing onto our petition – thank you!

Today, we are up against more lefty wingnuts and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). They are shutting out Native Alaskans’ opinions all because they refuse to tow the party line regarding a proposed gold and copper mine in southwest Alaska.

OBAMA PLANS TO CUT FUNDS THAT HELP STATES PAY FOR JAILING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

Barack Obama has added to his laundry-list of tactics intended to undermine the efforts of states fighting against illegal immigration within their own borders. Now, the Obama administration is proposing in its 2013 budget to cut $170 million from the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program leaving a measly $70 million for the program that helps states cover jail costs for illegal immigrants. The Justice Department has steadily cut this funding during the Obama administration with Obama even proposing to eliminate the SCAAP program in its entirety during his first year in office.

Texas, California and New York typically receive the biggest shares of the program with Texas alone receiving about eight percent of the program’s available funding in each of the last three years. Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn of Texas both see the budget cut as placing an unfair burden on local and state taxpayers “in order to appear to be cutting the federal budget” in light of Obama’s failure to secure the border and enforce federal immigration law.

Once the hardliner in cracking down on illegal immigration, new crackdown legislation in Arizona has begun to lose steam despite the success of its tough legislation like the infamous Senate Bill 1070 that was signed into law nearly two years ago.

Conservative state legislators are hoping to take back the distinction of being the toughest in the nation when it comes to illegal immigrants despite the tough odds of passing additional legislation now that most of the focus is on jobs and the economy.

It’s worth noting that since Arizona began cracking down on illegal immigration within its own borders, the unemployment rate of Arizonans is steadily decreasing.

Americans remain dissatisfied with the U.S. position in the world, even as their perceptions of how other countries view the U.S. are the most positive since 2004, and a slim majority believe world leaders respect President Obama.

Is America Spiraling Toward Fascism? Part 2Obviously, it cannot get much clearer than what Newt Gingrich said. The current Executive Branch is concerned about all its cronies and not about the suffering American people. According to former Speaker of the House Gingrich, it is the current administration’s goal to turn America into government-dependent fascist nation. In fact, he expressed it clearly when he said.....http://www.newswithviews.com/Parnell/carl101.htm
by Dr. Carl Parnell, Ed.D

Nearly half of small-business owners who are not currently hiring point to potential healthcare costs (48%) and government regulations (46%), in addition to concerns about weak revenues and the status of the U.S. economy, as reasons.